Spring-seat.



Patented Apr. 22, I902.

.1, J. BREAKEYL S P R l N G 8 EA T.

(Application filed Apr. 13, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J OSEPI-I BRE AKEY, OF PULLMAN, ILLINOIS.

SPRING-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,365, dated April 22, 1902. Application filed April 13, 1901.? Serial No. 55,723. (No model.)

To all wh0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN JOSEPH BREAKEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pullman, in the county of Cook and State of Illiion or other upholstering.

The object of the invention is to providea simple and inexpensive spring mechanism which can be applied to any of the seats now in use and which canbe quickly and easily repaired whenever it becomes necessary.

While this invention is particularly adapted for car-seats,it will be understood that it can be applied to and used upon any other seat.

The invention consists also in the peculiar construction of the various parts and in their novel combination and arrangement, all of which will be fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the frame of the seat embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention I employ a main supporting-frame A, essentially rectangular in shape, and to which are attached the lower springs B, said springs being connected at each end to the'front and rearmembers of the main frame. ably made from flat band-steel and are arched, as shown, and at the center each springis bent centrally upon itself, as most clearly shown at B, thus increasing the resiliency or yielding power of the arched spring B. As before stated,I employa series of these springs B, arranged in parallel order, and I also employ a corresponding top spring 0, each top spring being arranged directly above the bottom springs B, said top springs being held in such elevated position and by means of the coiled springs D arranged between the top and bottom springs, as most clearly shown.

The springs B are prefer- The springs O are also arched slightly, and adjacent to their ends they are bent or looped, as shown at C, in order to increase the elasticity or yielding power of the band-spring 0. Each band-spring O is also formed with an eye C upon its end and through which the reed or rodE is passed, said rod E passing entirely around the entire series of springs,

frame. By having the flat metal springs formed with reentrant or looped. portions the elasticity of thespring-frame as a whole is greatly increased.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a spring-seat, the combination with the main frame,of the lower fiat metal springs, the upper flat metal springs, the ends of the upper springs having eyes formed thereon,

and the upper frame supported and held in the said eyes, and the springs arranged between the upper and lower fiat springs, and connected thereto, substantially as described.

2. A spring-seat comprising a main frame,

the lower flat metal springs connected thereto, the upper flat metal springs, the interme diate coil-springs connecting the upper and lower flat springs, the upper springs having eyes at their ends and downwardly-bentportions adjacent to said ends, the lower fiat springs each having a downwardly-bent portion at its center, and the upper frame, supported in the eyes at the ends of the upper fiat springs.

JOHN JOSEPH BREAKEY.

WVitnesses:

EUGENE MAeINEss, PETER I'I. LESSLER. 

